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Carl Sandburg
College Freshman Composition 102 Course
Schedule Spring Semester 2010 (subject to
change) (page references
are to the Eleventh editions of Fiction
100 and Little, Brown Handbook) Week 1 Jan. 3 — First day back; review syllabus Jan. 5 — begin trial research project; bibliography
formats Little, Brown, pp. 654-684 (MLA);
785-799 (APA) Jan. 6 — source evaluation, Little,
Brown, pp 590-607; “mining” sources, Little,Brown 607-620; reading fiction discussion Week 2 Jan. 10 — notetaking; “Reading and Writing about
Literature,” Little, Brown, pp. 731-47 Jan. 12 — notetaking; “Drafting and Revising,” (Part
1) Little, Brown, pp 620-635 Jan. 14 — notetaking; “Drafting and Revising,” (Part 2) Little,
Brown, pp 635-643 First bibliography format quiz Week 3 Jan. 17 — NO SCHOOL; Martin Luther King’s birthday Jan. 19 — Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle,” p.
702 (1819) Other documentation styles Jan. 21 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsmen, Major
Molineux,” p. 646 (1832) Week 4 Jan. 24 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman
Brown,” p. 660 (1835) First draft of trial research paper Jan. 26 — Stephen King, “The Man in the Black Suit,”
p. 824 (1994) preparing
the final draft manuscript, LittleBrown pp 689-696; 697-725 Jan. 28 — Edgar Allen Poe, “The Fall of the House of
Usher,” p. 1155 (1839) Week 5 Jan. 31 — Bret Harte, “Tennessee’s Partner,” p.
639 (1869) Due to the “Blizzard of ‘11,” some of the following
assignments/activities will be moved to a later date or combined Feb.2 — Feb. 4 — Week 6 Feb. 7 — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Scandal in
Bohemia,” p. 440 (1891) Begin discovery research assignment Paper
#1 — Trial research paper final draft Feb. 8 — Kate Chopin, “The
Storm,” p. 268 (1898) C.A.T.
evaluation Feb. 9 — Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow
Sky,” p. 427 (1898) Feb. 11 — Susan Glaspall, “A Jury of Her Peers,” p.
586 (1917) Week 7 Feb. 14 — Second
bibliography format Feb. 16 — Sherwood Anderson, “I Want to Know Why,”
p. 20 (1921) Feb. 18 — Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants,” p. 670 (1927) Week 8 Feb. 21 — NO SCHOOL — President’s Day Feb. 22 — Third
bibliography format quiz Feb. 23 — William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,” p.
502 (1930) Feb. 25 — William Faulkner, “Barn Burning,” p. 492
(1939) Week 9 Feb. 28 — John Steinbeck, “Chrysanthemums,” p. 1233
(1937) March 2 — Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery,” p. 713
(1948) March 4 — Fourth
bibliography quiz Rough
Draft due of essay portion of I-Search Project includes note cards Week 10 March 7 — Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to
Find,” p. 1124 (1953) March 9 — Albert Camus, “The Guest,” p. 184 (1957) March 11 — Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been,” p. 1083 (1966) Final
Draft due of I-Search Project Week 11 March 14 — Brief analysis of contemporary magazine
story (Mini-Paper 3A) Story
assignments for undocumented literary analysis March 16 — Ann Beattie, “Janus,” p. 112 (1985) March 18 — NO SCHOOL — Parent-Teacher Conferences Week 12 March 21 — Annie Proulx, “The Half-Skinned Steer,”
p. 1174 (1997) March 22 — block student will present info on
research paper writing and on newer forms of presentation documentation March 23 — Begin plans for final project and formal
research paper; review progress on short stories; allow group time for those
working with the similar story March 25 — lab work for research; prep for next
Monday’s fiction overview quiz Week 13 March 28 — Fiction
overview quiz March 30 — Begin background
investigation for career controversy investigation April 1 — Paper #3B —
Literary Analysis of a Short Story Week 14 April 4 — April 6 — April 8 — Sixth
bibliography quiz — Specialty issues Week 15 April 11 — Researching April 13 — Researching April 15 — Researching MOST
LIKELY, NEXT WEEK’S PRESENTATIONS WILL MOVE TO AFTER THE SPRING BREAK BECAUSE
OF PROM ACTIVITIES THIS WEEK. Week 16 April 18 — Researching — Explanation of
rubrics for presentation and final research paper April 20 — Attend the annual
research presentations at WIU in the Union.
College students, using poster presentations and multi-media
presentations, demonstrate alternative methods of dissemination research
results. These demonstrates will be
modeled by our students next week. April 21 — NO SCHOOL — Beginning of Spring Break April 22 — Good Friday Week 17 April 25 — NO SCHOOL — Continuation of Spring Break April 27 — Project #4 — Presentation — In-class April 28 — Project #4 — Presentation, continued April 29 — Project #4 — Presentation, continued Paper
#5 — Formal Research Paper Final Draft Week 18 — Final Exam
Week May 2 — Review for final exam:
research techniques, bibliography formats, short stories May 4 — May 6 — final exams officially
begin for Sandburg courses ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ...... ..... ..... ..... Week 19 May 9
May 11 May 13 Week 20 May 16 May 18 May 20 May 21 — GRADUATION! Week 21 May 23 May 25 May 27 |